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The Moon was probably once a gooey ball.
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An Ancient Magma Ocean Once Covered the Moon, India’s Pragyan Lunar Rover Reveals

A year ago, India’s Pragyan rover began a nine Earth-day-long trek across a mysterious region of the Moon.

The robotic explorer encountered both smooth terrain as well as places filled with boulders likely flung out from craters. Despite this variety, the lunar dirt it observed at 23 different stops along its path was actually uniform in composition. When Pragyan probed the ingredients of this surface material, called regolith, it wound up boosting the idea that the Moon once harbored a subterranean magma ocean.

The findings appear in a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

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